Story+1985-04-13+Tokyo,+Japan

´´I grew up, uh....when I was in my teens....down along the coast along the seashore....lived in, uh....I guess it was kind of a rundown resort town....back home (?) very hard times and so....so they legalised gambling 70 miles south and....now there´s big golden casinos....a block away from the slums and local gangs are fighting for control and this is ´Atlantic City´...”
 * 13.04.85 Tokyo, Japan, intro to ´Atlantic City´**

´´I remember when....when I was growing up....my father would come home from work.... and he would go straight into the kitchen....and he´d sit down at the kitchen table and my mother would bring him his dinner when she got home from work....and uh, he´d sit there with a six pack of beer all night...and....what he used to do is he´d lock up the frontdoor so that me and my sister used to have to come in ´round the side....and....I can remember standing out in the driveway, looking in....and he´d always let me get up on the porch and through the kitchen, through the livingroom and just as I was about to go upstairs, I´d hear ´Bruce´....and uh, sometimes if he´d been sitting there too long, you were better off waiting till the morning to come in....and I had this sleeping bag that I used to stash....and sometimes at night when it got late, I´d sleep out on the edge of these woods or sleep on somebody´s porch or in a friend of mine´s car...and now when I go back home....sometimes I go past those places....and uh....I guess they remind me of those times....and uh....this song is about everybody needs some place to go on those nights when they can´t go home.....”
 * 13.04.85 Tokyo, Japan, intro to ´The River´**

´´When I do this....that means I´m in a good mood....now, this is a song....about getting old.... oh yeah....now....tonight is Mighty Max´s birthday...he´s the birthday boy tonight....now, Clarence....too many birthdays to count any more....but as you can see, he´s maintained every bit of his youthful beauty....now, this is how you go out to a nightclub....or a disco (chuckles) and somebody always comes up and tells you what a good time you had in high school...man, I can remember I hated high school....I didn´t like no high school....couldn´t stand no high school....in high school I was only interested in two things....one was the guitar ....and the other one was....that one, you know....(chuckles) but as I grew older, the guitar was the one I became good at....the other one I´m still looking for some volunteers who wanna practise, practise, practise (chuckles)....alright, in the end, all things must pass and it ain´t nothing but glory days....”
 * 13.04.85 Tokyo, Japan, intro to ´Glory Days´**

´´This song, uh....is about....I guess everybody....when you grow up, kind of has a love-hate-relationship with the place they were born and raised....I know, I grew up in a very small town and when I was....17, I couldn´t wait to get out....I thought that if I got out that I´d never miss it....I´d never be lonely for my family or my old friends....and uh, I got the opportunity to go on the road and travel a lot and for a long time I never did miss it....I never missed....missed there at all....but then as I got older, I´d come home off the road and I´d get in my car...and I´d start to drive back down the streets that I grew up on....try to find my old friends and see what their lives were like now....and I realised that....the place that you were born never really leaves you, it´s always in your blood....and uh....so what I wanna say is.... (speaks in Japanese)....from my hometown to your hometown....”
 * 13.04.85 Tokyo, Japan, intro to ´My Hometown´**

´´I remember my dad always telling me....that I wasn´t gonna amount to anything....and how he´d sit there....in the kitchen and think of everything that we didn´t have....and we wasn´t gonna have....until he got me thinking like that too....and I remember standing down on the corner....until I felt like I was just gonna....I felt like someday....I was just gonna.....”
 * 13.04.85 Tokyo, Japan, intro to ´I´m on Fire´**

//Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi//